Quote Originally Posted by Babekeke View Post
People keep on saying how RUN can only mitigate damage from 1 element at a time...

... which is wrong of course.

#1 barspell: Cast by yourself if solo, or by a whm if in a party. (yes, every party member can get this too).

#2 Build up 3 runes of a different element and use Valiance or Vallation. (Valliance also helps out the rest of the party, but you need the RUN there to use it).

#3 Build up 3 more runes of a third element.

#4 If a spell comes in of one of the other elements, hit one for all.

#5 If mob uses Chainspell, hit Elemental Sforzo (RUN is the best job for tanking chainspell for this reason alone... if it can get/hold hate, which shouldn't be too hard when you pop Ele Sforzo anyway).

Not just 1 element.

Edit: Oh not to mention that we only need 14% -MDT in gear to cap MDT when using Shell V on ourselves with Embolden. (even less if it stacks with effects of Sheltered ring)
They say that because magic evasion is fairly lacking. The boost to the strength of runes was a big help, but the truth is that enemies have enough magic accuracy to punch a hole through RUN's magic evasion even if they have the same barspell and runes all stacked together. Yes, a runefencer could go for slight resistance to several elements instead of large resistance to one. Heck, you could even put up 3 different runes and keep vallation/valiance up on yourself to take 15% less damage (multiplied, not added to MDT). Then every 3 minutes, you could also absorb the damage from a spell by using liement.

Aegis PLD takes 1/8 normal magic damage from any element all the time without fussing with runes or responding to changing battle conditions. Yes, a RUN could put up 3 runes, vallation, then put up 3 different runes, but that would take them a minute to do while you're getting hammered by amnesia, paralyze, sleep, and elemental damage that you don't have your runes up for yet. Plus, if you're not stacking your barspell and runes together, you're only going to get about 150 m.eva for each element. Your resist rate will be pretty low. Aegis works 100% of the time.